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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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| SOUTH RONALDSAY [island] | South Ronaldsay | Orkneyinga Saga (a modern translation) | 124 | South Ronaldsay, one of the Orkney islands, and, excepting Pentland Skerries, the most southerly of the group. It lies about 6 miles north by east of Duncansby-head, and occupies the South east Corner of the Orcadian archipelago It is washed on the north by Water Sound about a mile broad, which divides it from the island of Burray, on the east by the North Sea or German Ocean; on the south by the eastern entrance of the Pentland Firth, which divides it from Caithness; and on the west by the northern expansion of that firth or the entrance of Scapa Flow, which divides it from Walls & Flotta. |
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